Talk:Sassoon family

Stanley Jackson: The Sassoons (1968)
I agree (below) that the article is garbled and a clear distinction needs to be made between the brothers Joseph Sassoon and David Sassoon. What surprises me is that no mention is made of the excellent biography of the Sassoons by Stanley Jackson (1968). This concentrates entirely on David Sassoon (1792-1864) and his descendants with no mention at all of his brother Joseph. Jackson had extensive access to family papers and seems to be an excellent source. I note that the sections on Joseph have no citations and I agree that it should be separated into a section of its own. I can than develop the remainder into an article on David Sassoon and family, It is a long time since I made any contributions to Wikipedia so if someone is able to make that separation I will try to improve what is left of David Sassoon.--Bebington (talk) 15:40, 9 June 2020 (UTC)

Aleppo and Baghdad families
This article is garbled. First, Sassoon or Sasson is a common Mizrahi Jewish name. But this article confuses two major Sassoon families in the 19th-20th century which were not, it appears to me, related. (I am seeking information, if they were but cannot find it.) The first are the Aleppo Sassoons, who established branches in Alexandria, Singapore, Calcutta and Yokahoma, with branches moving to Israel and their descendants playing a leading role in the Syrian Jewish community in the United States. The second are the Baghdad Sassoons, the descendants of David Sassoon who established a brief business dynasty out of Bombay before moving to London. These second Baghdad-origin Sassoons have been the subject of major books, celebrity and reached the upper ranks of the British elite and government. The Aleppo Sassoons have played important roles in various communities but never enjoyed such celebrity. We need to think about either establishing two articles, or refocusing the article around the story of the two families.

etymology
the etymology section has no references and doesn't make sense. the family is from baghdad, while sason is in the anatolian highlands of turkey and not in mesopotamia, and there's no indication that this family has any connection to kurds or armenians. the name of the family means "joy" in hebrew, and is a common name among the jews of iraq and syria.--Exjerusalemite (talk) 23:21, 15 December 2022 (UTC)

Recent family biography
Joseph Sassoon, Georgetown University Professor of History and Political Economy at the Center for Contemporary Arab Studies has a new book out, The Sassoons: The Great Global Merchants and the Making of an Empire. Probably worth someone following up. - Jmabel &#124; Talk 00:48, 17 February 2023 (UTC)